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Crystal88 said:
I asked my counselor about this today when I saw her. She told me that the two things - alters and the inner child are two different things and that everyone even people who are not DID have an inner child. ....She said some people who have DID have learned to remain semi aware thats called being co conscious. But that is still different from the inner child because a co conscious person is watching from a distance far binoculars way where as inner child its not feeling separate and far away from the experience.

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thank you for such a succinct explanation of the differences between inner child and alters. this is something we will use to help explain when ppl ask us if our dissociation is like having an inner child......before we rolled our eyes, sighed and tried to explain....now we have a better way. thx.